2000 Ultimate AFL Best and Fairest
Since the season finished 4 weeks ago, I had an idea, and I was going to go through all results this year, and do a Best and Fairest competition for the web-site that I am running on Big Footy. The address if you wish to get more information on these Best and Fairest results or for any other Footballing needs that you may have is www.bigfooty.com/users/afl/eastsydney. I will have the Best and Fairest results all posted on the web-site by tomorrow. Hopefully!!
On this thread I will post results from all 22 rounds, a half year round-up and a final year round-up giving all the results and the winner of the Inaugural Ultimate AFL Best and Fairest Best and Fairest Competition.
Unfortunately, I have not run this run from the start of the season, so over the last couple of weeks I have gone through all the statistics from every game played this year and given points to players. The problem with this is that these points are given on more of a statistical value. Basically what this means, is if in a game that the Kangaroos play Wayne Carey gets 20 disposals, but has a huge impact and probably deserved 4 or 5 votes, he will probably end up with 2 or 3 maximum. Whereas Peter Bell may have racked up 35 disposals, but didn’t really make an impact on the game, and deserved 2 or 3 points, he would end up with 4 or 5 points for having 35 disposals. This problem will be rectified next year, when the competition will be run from the beginning of the season, and I will have the opportunity to go over all match reviews and see who really had a bigger impact.
The system I used to decide the Best and Fairest is a rather unconventional system, that is not used in any of the major Best and Fairest competitions. I have often argued on Big Footy that this should be the system used for the Brownlow Medal. It is a much more fairer system than the current Brownlow Medal system. What I did was go through all the statistic and decide who I thought had good enough matches to be awarded Best and Fairest Points. Then I would give all these players a score out of 5, which would be how many Best and Fairest points they would get for the game. It may sound a little complicated, but you will understand once you see the first round scoring.
The advantages I feel that this system has over the current Brownlow Medal system are:
1. Player can not have another player ‘steal’ votes of them. For Instance, if Scott Camporeale, Brett Ratten and Anthony Koutifidies all get 50 disposals in a match, one of them will end up with 3 Brownlow Medal Votes, another with 2 Votes and the other with 1. However, with my system, all would end up with 5 Best and Fairest Points.
2. Because of reason number 1, all players have an equal opportunity to win the Best and Fairest. In the Brownlow Medal, a player in a bad team has a much better chance than a player of equal talent in a good team because the player in the good team, will obviously have players sometimes ‘stealing’ votes of him, which may be enough to cost him the Brownlow Medal. The player on the bad team works in the opposite way, because they are going bad, they obviously don’t have many good players on their side, so the player will not often have other players ‘stealing’ a vote of him. Also, if he doesn’t play as good as he normally does, he still may end up with 3 Brownlow Votes, because no-one else on performed very well either.
By stealing, I mean a player plays a very good game, which in just about any other game, he would have received 3 Brownlow Votes, but in this particularly match, there was another player who player a slightly better game, in which the first mentioned player, will then only receive 2 Brownlow Medal Votes.
I know that definition was quite obvious, but I thought I should just put that in case some nitty-gritty person decides to ask that.
NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY REPLIES OR COMMENTS UNTIL I HAVE COMPLETED ALL 22 ROUNDS, AND THE FINAL ROUND-UP OF ALL BEST AND FAIREST RESULTS. THERE WILL BE 24 REPLIES, WHICH IS WHEN I WELCOME YOU TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS YOU WISH
Since the season finished 4 weeks ago, I had an idea, and I was going to go through all results this year, and do a Best and Fairest competition for the web-site that I am running on Big Footy. The address if you wish to get more information on these Best and Fairest results or for any other Footballing needs that you may have is www.bigfooty.com/users/afl/eastsydney. I will have the Best and Fairest results all posted on the web-site by tomorrow. Hopefully!!
On this thread I will post results from all 22 rounds, a half year round-up and a final year round-up giving all the results and the winner of the Inaugural Ultimate AFL Best and Fairest Best and Fairest Competition.
Unfortunately, I have not run this run from the start of the season, so over the last couple of weeks I have gone through all the statistics from every game played this year and given points to players. The problem with this is that these points are given on more of a statistical value. Basically what this means, is if in a game that the Kangaroos play Wayne Carey gets 20 disposals, but has a huge impact and probably deserved 4 or 5 votes, he will probably end up with 2 or 3 maximum. Whereas Peter Bell may have racked up 35 disposals, but didn’t really make an impact on the game, and deserved 2 or 3 points, he would end up with 4 or 5 points for having 35 disposals. This problem will be rectified next year, when the competition will be run from the beginning of the season, and I will have the opportunity to go over all match reviews and see who really had a bigger impact.
The system I used to decide the Best and Fairest is a rather unconventional system, that is not used in any of the major Best and Fairest competitions. I have often argued on Big Footy that this should be the system used for the Brownlow Medal. It is a much more fairer system than the current Brownlow Medal system. What I did was go through all the statistic and decide who I thought had good enough matches to be awarded Best and Fairest Points. Then I would give all these players a score out of 5, which would be how many Best and Fairest points they would get for the game. It may sound a little complicated, but you will understand once you see the first round scoring.
The advantages I feel that this system has over the current Brownlow Medal system are:
1. Player can not have another player ‘steal’ votes of them. For Instance, if Scott Camporeale, Brett Ratten and Anthony Koutifidies all get 50 disposals in a match, one of them will end up with 3 Brownlow Medal Votes, another with 2 Votes and the other with 1. However, with my system, all would end up with 5 Best and Fairest Points.
2. Because of reason number 1, all players have an equal opportunity to win the Best and Fairest. In the Brownlow Medal, a player in a bad team has a much better chance than a player of equal talent in a good team because the player in the good team, will obviously have players sometimes ‘stealing’ votes of him, which may be enough to cost him the Brownlow Medal. The player on the bad team works in the opposite way, because they are going bad, they obviously don’t have many good players on their side, so the player will not often have other players ‘stealing’ a vote of him. Also, if he doesn’t play as good as he normally does, he still may end up with 3 Brownlow Votes, because no-one else on performed very well either.
By stealing, I mean a player plays a very good game, which in just about any other game, he would have received 3 Brownlow Votes, but in this particularly match, there was another player who player a slightly better game, in which the first mentioned player, will then only receive 2 Brownlow Medal Votes.
I know that definition was quite obvious, but I thought I should just put that in case some nitty-gritty person decides to ask that.
NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY REPLIES OR COMMENTS UNTIL I HAVE COMPLETED ALL 22 ROUNDS, AND THE FINAL ROUND-UP OF ALL BEST AND FAIREST RESULTS. THERE WILL BE 24 REPLIES, WHICH IS WHEN I WELCOME YOU TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS YOU WISH